skippy41 wrote:
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Which I believe ..... "Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once" ..... is the best thing that can happen in the long term.
You have lost me and possibly the rest of us on that one brum
I am, and I suspect a great number, perhaps the majority of HC and PH drivers are, absolutely sick to the back teeth with this HC v PH, plying for hire, not plying for hire, over-ranking, touting, taxi wars, one tier system, two tier system, this licence allows you to do this but not that, that licence allows you to do that but not this and I believe it's high time that we had a big 'expolsion' in this 'taxi' trade and the sooner the better.
The politicians need to sort this mess out with new legislation that has been properly thought through, not just to accommodate HC, but all drivers in this field, including the questions of limos, self drive hire, rickshaws, etc., etc.
It ain't working in Brum, Timbuktoo or Fairyland. And I believe that if this idea goes nationwide, the temperature will get really hot vary quickly & politicians will take note. I want as much chaos as is humanly possible, so that things change. If that means one-tier, so be it.
I believe it's time that the legislation governing HC, PC & all other forms of hire vehicles, N, S, E & W of that should be re-written.
FFS the DDA 1995 is about to be repealed & replaced by the Equality Act 2009, after only 14 years, but we have to suffer being regulated by an Act designed to control hiring horse & buggy transport from nearly 200 years ago?
They're taking the p*ss, those politicians.